Letterbook of Robert Brooks and Co., 1872 July 12-1876 July 7 [manuscript]
- Bib ID:
- 6095428
- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author:
- Robert Brooks and Co
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Available for research. Not for loan.
- Description:
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- [1872-1876]
- 0.03 m. (1 v.)
- Series:
- Robert Brooks and Co. Records of Robert Brooks and Co.
- Summary:
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Letterbook comprising copies of manuscript letters relating to the Australian interests of the London wool merchants, Robert Brooks and Co. Maintained by Herbert Brooks, the letterbook records, in chronological order, outwards correspondence from 12 July, 1872-7 July, 1876. The letters discuss such shipping matters as defective stowage and deterioration in the value of cargo, rates charged at docks, wharves and by warehouses, insurance policy, business in tinned meat, the demand for tallow, pastoral interests including flock size, prospects for lambing and the clip, and the state of the wool market. They also refer to shipments conveyed by the "Turkish Empire", "Lady Jocelyn", "Loch Levens", "Somersetshire" and the "Candahar", among other merchant vessels. Correspondents include W.W. Couche, W. Morgan, S.S. Ritchie and James White (1 v.).
- Notes:
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- Manuscript reference no.: MS 2381.
- Single volume, with letters on numbered leaves 87-499 (tissue paper), preceded by an index of recipients of letters on lined white paper. Some leaves unused; leaves 451, 454-455 omitted from foliation. A loose memo, relating to Messrs. Holmes White & Coy., is enclosed at leaf 171.
- Part of the collection: Records of Robert Brooks and Co.
- Condition: Torn remnant only of leaf 251.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-230942504
- Subject:
- Time Coverage:
- 1802-1876
- Other authors/contributors:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Since 1946 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1876
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1876
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